{"id":735,"date":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=735"},"modified":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","slug":"city-of-ships-by-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/city-of-ships-by-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Ships by Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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City of Ships<\/h2>\n

?by Walt Whitman<\/p>\n

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City of ships!
\n(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!
\nO the beautiful, sharp-bowed steam-ships and sail-ships!)
\nCity of the world! (for all races are here;
\nAll the lands of the earth make contributions here;)
\nCity of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!
\nCity whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out,
\n??????? with eddies and foam!
\nCity of wharves and stores! city of tall fa?ades of marble and iron!
\nProud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!
\nSpring up, O city! not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
\nFear not! submit to no models but your own, O city!
\nBehold me! incarnate me, as I have incarnated you!
\nI have rejected nothing you offered me?whom you adopted, I have adopted;
\nGood or bad, I never question you?I love all?I do not condemn anything;
\nI chant and celebrate all that is yours?yet peace no more;
\nIn peace I chanted peace, but now the drum of war is mine;
\nWar, red war, is my song through your streets, O city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City of Ships ?by Walt Whitman ? City of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships! O the beautiful, sharp-bowed steam-ships and sail-ships!) City of the world! (for all races are here; All the lands of the earth make contributions here;) City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides! City whose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-whitman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t